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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Oliver Milman

Trump’s move to sanitize US history gets little support with national park visitors

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Visitors walk through Muir Woods national monument in California on 24 July. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

As part of his administration’s war on “woke”, Donald Trump has asked the American public to report anything “negative” about Americans in US national parks. But the public has largely refused to support a world view without inconvenient historical facts, comments submitted from national parks and seen by the Guardian show.

Notices have been erected at every National Park Service (NPS) site, which spans 433 national parks, monuments and battlefields, following an order from May entitled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History”, issued by Trump’s department of the interior. The president had demanded a crackdown on any material that “inappropriately disparages Americans”.

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